currency symbol is not consistent in Visual Studio

[TimMackey]

I have the following code:

System.Globalization.CultureInfo ci = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US");
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ci;
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ci;
Console.WriteLine("Currency symbol test {0:s} {1:c}", ci.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol, 12.34M);
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Currency symbol test {0:s} {1:c}", ci.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol, 56.78M);

When running the program from a Command window, the currency symbol (24 hex) is correctly displayed in both instances, as follows: Currency symbol test $ $12.34 When running the program from VS (2010) debugger, the currency symbol (A4 hex) is incorrectly displayed when writing to the VS output window pane, as follows: Currency symbol test $ ¤56.78 My Windows 7 Region and Language settings are English and United States. The Currency Symbol is dollar sign ($). How can I force Visual Studio to recognize the current locale and output the correct currency symbol in the output window pane?

[Lost User]

It looks like Visual Studio is not using the region settings of your system but using the default symbol[^]. I would suggest you raise this with Microsoft.

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[Matt T Heffron]

using .NET Reflector I checked what really is done and System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine() explicitly uses CultureInfo.InvariantCulture for its internal call to string.Format(). If you really need the debug output to use some other culture, then you'll need to call string.Format() yourself.